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How goofy can your first grader get? Show her how to use balloons and yarn to craft a collection of silly faces!

Want to help your child recognize the recipe for a successful sentence? Here's a fun activity to get your child thinking about how sentences work.

Let your child be a designer for the day with this first grade arts and crafts activity: make a felt pillow decorated with colorful felt cut-outs.

These adorable felt orange slices are cute as can be and couldn’t be easier to make.

Making gift bags for a Halloween party or tricker-treaters is a great way for your child to learn a bit about geometry and origami!

Here's a science activity that lets a first grader use an empty dish detergent bottle to create his own fountain as he explores air pressure.

Help your child get to know the least-appreciated of the five senses, the sense of smell, with a smelling station.

Make a fun refrigerator graph with your first grader in order to help her develop those crucial graphing skills, while engaging with the whole family.

Throw a P.E. party in your own backyard that will make fitness fun!

Teach your child how butter is created by shaking up cream the old-fashioned way.

Give your first grader reading and writing practice with this fun, practical postcard that will also help with spelling strategies.

In this science fair projects, students will grow out the bacteria that collect on air conditioner filters.

With a newspaper, highlighter, and some fun extra prizes, you can help your first grader start lifetime reading habits with print all around us.

Make some easy homemade yogurt with your young scientist, and see what a few 'live' bacteria can do in the right conditions!

Here's a St. Patrick's Day card your child can make, write, and give. Great learning and lots of fun--a "lucky" combination for a lucky holiday!

Spruce up some sneakers that have seen better days by turning them into a sparkly dress-up staple.

Build good first grade reading and writing skills, as well as family peace and quiet, with this hand made story book about mornings in your home.

This craft, a perfect pre-bedtime activity for a first sleepover, helps build up a ton of useful skills, like geometry, measurement, and basic sewing skills.

This nutcracker soldier won't crack any nuts, but he will hide candies. Make a nutcracker soldier with your child this Christmas and have a cracking good time.

Your first or second grader will delight in creating multi-colored confetti egg smashers, traditional in Mexico, called cascarones!

Water can go from solid to liquid to gas...but how does popcorn go from kernel to snack? Invite your first grade scientist to find out.

This activity provides a solution to all those leaves on your doorstep, while also giving your child a fun science lesson.

Help your second grader make his own badminton set--out of your old pantyhose! He'll delight in his crafty independence, and you'll love saving money.

In this cool engineering science fair project, kids learn how to build Hero's engine: an enlightening example of Newton's third law.

When you see those sunscreen "protection levels," what does that really mean? Try this experiment to find out.

The fish most kids see is usually filleted, and it's hard to see how it came from a lake or sea. This cool gyotaku activity blends life science with art!

Your first grader will gain an understanding of time management as your holiday tasks become manageable, with this to-do list reinvented as an advent calendar!

Support your first grader's counting and reading skills while laughing and running in this fun playground game.